Tigers ready to bloom

LSU baseball team primed for another Omaha trip

6:28 PM,
Feb. 13, 2014

Written by

Glenn Guilbeau

Following weeks of routine, freezing temperatures, things are warming up around LSU just in time for baseball.

LSU, the No. 9 team in the nation in the Baseball America poll, will open the season at 7 p.m. Friday amid temperatures in the high 50s against the University of New Orleans at Alex Box Stadium. Cox Sports Television will televise the game throughout the state.

"Welcome to the frozen tundra of Alex Box Stadium," LSU coach Paul Mainieri joked as he opened Media Day for his team two weeks ago after it was postponed twice by wintry weather. "It is crazy what we have been dealing with. I've been ...